Safety-razor-blade holder



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INVENTOR.

A TTORNEY- Patented May 26, 1925.

UNITED-STATES ARTHUR O. PETERSJN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

SAFETY-RAZOR-BLADE HOLDER.

Application filed November To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR G. PETERSON,

a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Los Angeles,county of Los Angeles, State of California, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Safety- Razor-Blade Holders, of'which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to a holder for the blades of safety-razors for usein honing and stropping the same and the object thereof is to provide aholder into which the blade can be easily and quickly inserted and fromwhich it can be easily and quickly removed. A further object is toprovide a holder in which a blade will be securely held in the properposition for honing and stropping.

In the drawings forming a part of this application I have illustrated myholder applied for blades of the Gillette type. 1 is a side elevation.Fig. 2 is an enlarged edge View ofthe blade holding end open to receivea blade, which I call the head. I Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross section ofFig.

1 on the line 3-3. Fig. 4 is an end view of Fig. 2 viewed from the lineH. Fig. 5 is an edge View of the blade end with the blade positioned foruse.

Referring to the drawings the device primarily consists of a tubularhandle 10, preferably of thin pipe of the desired size and a head. Thehead consists of the base 11 which is integral with the handle and is acontinuation thereof with one half partially severed and a part is bentto be in a plane that passes through the longitudinal center of thehandle and forms a jaw 12. In jaw 12 are pressed two blade lugs 13 whichenter holes 1% in the blade 15 when the blade is positioned for use. Theother portion of the head is a clamp which is an opposing duplicate ofthat portion which is united to the handle and the upper part is marked16 and for distinction is called the clamp base andthe lower portion ismarked 17 and for distinction is called the clamp jaw. The clamp jaw haspressed out portions like jaw 12. In all forms the base and jawsare ofthe same form except 7.1921. Serial "No. 513,263.

rivet 19. After a blade is positioned on'jaw .12 the clamp is positionedas shown in Figs. 1 and 3 and a catch 21 which may be pivotallyconnected to jaw 12 or to jaw 17 is brought to a position toholdthe jawsfrom separating as best shown in Figs. 5, 6. The blade is then honed. orstropped as desired in the usual manner of honing or stropping theordinary razor blades. By this construction a smooth back is providedwhich enables the holder to be turned on the strop in the same mannerthat an ordinary razor is turned in stropping and the other edge of theblade is protected. In other forms of safety razor blades suitable lugsare pressed from the jaws to properly hold the blades in the jaws whenthe blade is positioned and the catch turned. If desired the handlebases and jaws could be stamped from resilient metal and formed up withsuitable tools.

It will be seen that by my construction all the parts forming my holderare connected and there is no danger of any part becoming lost.

Having described my invention I claim I .A stropping' device for safetyrazor blades comprising a tubular handle terminating in one of a pair ofclamping members, said handle member having a semicircular base and ablade projecting from one edge thereof, said blade lying in a planepassing through the edges of the'base, said blade having lugs adapted toenter the holes in the razor blade; a second clamping member having areversely curved base and a blade projecting therefrom adapted whenpositioned for use to lie parallel to the other blade and spacedtherefrom the distance of the thickness of the razor blade, the innerend of said last member beingbifuroated to straddle the handle the outersurfacesof the bases of said handle members being in the same plane asthe outer surfaces of the han-.

die, one of said bases being acontinuation of a part o1 the handle; arivet connecting said last member to the handle; and a catch pivoted tothe outer end of one of said clamping members; said catch having aU-shaped end Which When the catch is positioned for use will engage bothclamp:

ing members and prevent them from separating.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I 10 have hereunto subscribed myname this 29th day of Oct, 1921.

C. PETER SGN.

